The Secrets of Elemental Quilting: Innovative Quilting Designs plus Trapunto Tips & Tricks

Focusing on designrather than technique, this guide demonstrates how amotifcan berotated, reflected, or repeated to create an entirely new quilt pattern. Thirty base elements are provided in several sizes for easy tracing, scanning, or photocopying, and step-by-step instructions explain howtoarrange copiesof the chosen elementto createborder, corner, block,or frame designs. Illustrations showexamplesof assembled patterns, and the last chapter provides directions for adding trapunto, a padding technique that adds depth and definition.TheDVD counterpartbrings the discussionto life as the author creates a custom quilt design based on a singlegeometric figure, marks a quilt top,and demonstrates three different trapunto projects.